When Rolando Pacheco heard his name announced last week during the $2,500 Grooms’ Class at the 2022 Winter Equestrian Festival, he immediately kissed his horse, Forever Dance, in appreciation and walked forward to join the other top five hunter grooms. It was Pacheco’s first time competing in the class at WEF in Wellington, Florida, and he […]
Only once in the past decade have I stood atop a mountain, peering down at white powder with boards strapped to my feet. What came next didn’t go well. At one point I found myself on my stomach, skis splayed, unable to do one of the basic tasks I’ve done successfully since the first year […]
Let’s not talk about Mark Todd, because, honestly, it’s not about him. It’s about all of us. It’s about the horse industry; it’s about the sports industry. It’s about what most of us came up learning, how we learned to ride and train, and it’s about the collective defensive reaction to having those things be […]
Gold medalist eventer Sir Mark Todd has come under fire and been given an interim suspension by the British Horseracing Authority after a video of him repeatedly hitting a horse with a tree branch was posted on social media. British eventer Chloe Terrell, who identified herself as the rider of the horse being hit, initially posted the video […]
Three years ago, I bought a young horse named Gnocchi. She had just turned 5. I’d recently retired my older mare, and I needed something to ride that could also be an investment. Gnocchi (Clearaway—Afonya) was bred by Cara Anthony, my previous trainer on the West Coast, so I knew exactly where she came from […]
Ten years ago, Kerrigan Gluch packed up and left her hometown of Mount Pleasant, Michigan, to take a working student position at Hampton Green Farm in Wellington, Florida, and pursue dressage seriously. Now 25, Gluch is campaigning two horses at Grand Prix and has another she’s aiming toward the young horse classes—and it’s all due to […]
In this installment of the Chronicle’s Forum, veteran hunter and equitation trainer Tom Wright explains how proper planning and homework help a horse and rider execute when it counts. Wright runs Uphill Farm Inc. out of Wellington, Florida, and Nashville, Tennessee. He’s trained many horses and riders to hunter wins at all the major championship […]
Riley Kosirog laughed as she recalled her first recognized event with Johnie Bravo. She and the 15-hand bay were approached by a woman who’d seen them in the dressage warm up and asked if “John” had been imported and if he was a German Riding Pony. The woman must have only seen him from his right […]
California professional Katie Taylor-Davidson and L’Con Reyes topped a field of 27 on Friday, Feb. 11, to win the $50,000 Butet USHJA International Hunter Derby, the first hunter event to be held on the grass field at Desert International Horse Park in Thermal, California. It was the fourth derby win for Taylor-Davidson and “Theo,” a […]
Three cases of non-neurologic EHV-1 were confirmed Feb. 11 at the Desert International Horse Park in Thermal, California, horse park officials announced last week. An additional two cases from the same barn and a fourth case from a different barn on the property have since been confirmed (see updates below). “The three horses were immediately quarantined and […]
When Rolando Pacheco heard his name announced last week during the $2,500 Grooms’ Class at the 2022 Winter Equestrian Festival, he immediately kissed his horse, Forever Dance, in appreciation and walked forward to join the other top five hunter grooms. It was Pacheco’s first time competing in the class at WEF in Wellington, Florida, and he […]
Only once in the past decade have I stood atop a mountain, peering down at white powder with boards strapped to my feet. What came next didn’t go well. At one point I found myself on my stomach, skis splayed, unable to do one of the basic tasks I’ve done successfully since the first year […]
Let’s not talk about Mark Todd, because, honestly, it’s not about him. It’s about all of us. It’s about the horse industry; it’s about the sports industry. It’s about what most of us came up learning, how we learned to ride and train, and it’s about the collective defensive reaction to having those things be […]
Gold medalist eventer Sir Mark Todd has come under fire and been given an interim suspension by the British Horseracing Authority after a video of him repeatedly hitting a horse with a tree branch was posted on social media. British eventer Chloe Terrell, who identified herself as the rider of the horse being hit, initially posted the video […]
Three years ago, I bought a young horse named Gnocchi. She had just turned 5. I’d recently retired my older mare, and I needed something to ride that could also be an investment. Gnocchi (Clearaway—Afonya) was bred by Cara Anthony, my previous trainer on the West Coast, so I knew exactly where she came from […]
Ten years ago, Kerrigan Gluch packed up and left her hometown of Mount Pleasant, Michigan, to take a working student position at Hampton Green Farm in Wellington, Florida, and pursue dressage seriously. Now 25, Gluch is campaigning two horses at Grand Prix and has another she’s aiming toward the young horse classes—and it’s all due to […]
In this installment of the Chronicle’s Forum, veteran hunter and equitation trainer Tom Wright explains how proper planning and homework help a horse and rider execute when it counts. Wright runs Uphill Farm Inc. out of Wellington, Florida, and Nashville, Tennessee. He’s trained many horses and riders to hunter wins at all the major championship […]
Riley Kosirog laughed as she recalled her first recognized event with Johnie Bravo. She and the 15-hand bay were approached by a woman who’d seen them in the dressage warm up and asked if “John” had been imported and if he was a German Riding Pony. The woman must have only seen him from his right […]
California professional Katie Taylor-Davidson and L’Con Reyes topped a field of 27 on Friday, Feb. 11, to win the $50,000 Butet USHJA International Hunter Derby, the first hunter event to be held on the grass field at Desert International Horse Park in Thermal, California. It was the fourth derby win for Taylor-Davidson and “Theo,” a […]
Three cases of non-neurologic EHV-1 were confirmed Feb. 11 at the Desert International Horse Park in Thermal, California, horse park officials announced last week. An additional two cases from the same barn and a fourth case from a different barn on the property have since been confirmed (see updates below). “The three horses were immediately quarantined and […]
